Themed collection 2022 Focus and Perspective articles

Cyan and blue phosphors have great application potential in lighting, displays and other fields.

Silane promoted glycosylation and its applications for preparation of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Solvent free synthesis of organoselenium compounds using conventional heating, microwave irradiation, ball milling, and photo-induction is discussed.

Radical reactions involving 2-alkenyl benzaldehydes have intensively progressed and give unique access to structurally valuable benzocycloketone compounds.

We made a detailed discussion about TCs and CDs, including the synthetic methods, doping strategies and promising prospects.

This review summarizes the recent advances in new energetic plasticizers with different substituent groups and molecular frameworks.

Quantum dots have great potential in biomedical applications due to their excellent optical properties and biocompatibility.

This review simply and systematically summarizes the general trend between the chemical structure and toxicity of ionic liquids across biological species. It also provides strategies for the development of low-toxicity ionic liquids.

This review highlights rare earth biphenolates as they offer a diversity over simpler aryloxides, as well as their efficacy as catalysts and initiators in organic transformations and polymerisations.

This paper focuses on summarizing the Al(III)/In(III)-MOFs for the detection of representative pollutants. The potential scope of development of the MOFs is briefly discussed to provide directions for in-depth exploration of the field.

Cysteine cathepsins are important proteases that play important roles in physiological and pathological processes and have the potential to be target candidates for disease diagnosis and treatment.

Nanogenerators are a kind of self-powered device attracted much attention for conversion of mechanical energy into electricity. Various types of organic and inorganic filler materials in PVDF polymer have been suggested to improve the performance.

The thermal, chemical, electrochemical, radiolytic and biological stability of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents are reviewed.

This review summarizes recent advances in coal-based carbon dots (CDs) from two perspectives, namely, the synthetic method and properties of CDs produced from different rank coals and the roles of coal-based CDs in applications of photocatalysis and energy storage.

Application of chitosan-decorated magnetic nanocomposites in remediation of dye-laden wastewaters.

The influence of the morphology of Cu₂O on its properties and Cu₂O-based photocatalysts with a core–shell structure for hydrogen production.

This review summarizes the visible light-mediated synthesis of amides.

An intense increase in non-biodegradable plastics and waste metals is an immediate threat to the world and needs to be addressed urgently.

This review summarizes the synthesis, applications for the NH₃-SCR and methods for strengthening the water resistance and thermal stability of MOF catalysts.

Inorganic enzymes, a new class of inorganic nanomaterials with intrinsic enzyme-like properties, are comparable to proteins and RNAs as biocatalysts.

Use of click chemistry in synthesizing organoselenium compounds and the applications of metal complexes of such compounds as catalysts for various chemical transformations have been critically analyzed.

Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) attract huge attention in analytical and bioanalytical applications due to their high selectivity towards target analytes, specificity, photostability, and quantum yield.

The mechanisms, common properties and biological applications of different types of metal ion hydrogels are summarized.

An overview on the recent progress in bimetallic MOFs regarding their design strategies, syntheses and multifarious applications.

In this review we shed the light of the chemistry of 2-vinylindoles, synthesis and application via metal coupling catalysis as a green approach.

This article discusses the current status and future prospects of multi-bandgap colloidal quantum dot-based optoelectronic devices.

The Trost group made notable attempts in the 1990s to synthesize several natural products such as vitamin E and its analogs, clusifoliol, rhododaurichromanic acid A, siccanin, and calanolide A and B through the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) reaction.

Red-emitting/near-infrared fluorescent probes for biothiols based on dicyanoisophorone, tricyanofuran, rhodamine, BODIPY, cyanine dyes and other fluorophores were reviewed and summarized.

Nitrogen heterocycles are some of the most important compounds that are found in nature or synthesized otherwise.

The latest progress in temperature-induced self-assembly transformation on solid surfaces was discussed.

Different mechanisms of action for the quinoxaline moiety to fight breast cancer.

As a result of the modification of truxene, we can change the electronic structure or create multidimensional materials. Thus, the use of truxenes is very wide.

Electrospun membranes are promising substrates for receptor layer immobilization in optical sensors. Either colorimetric, luminescence, or Raman scattering signal can be used to detect the analyte.

The transition metal-free synthetic protocols of isoindolinone and its fused analogues are highlighted in this review since 2007 to 2021.

The innovation of chemosensors for tin ions (Sn⁴⁺/Sn²⁺) has evolved as a key research topic in recent decades, garnering a lot of attention due to their environmental, industrial and biological importance.

A microkinetic model can be constructed through a phenomenological approach by following the schematically represented workflow. The model parameters are fitted by comparison between the empirical and simulated kinetic responses.

A perspective overview for levulinic acid and/or γ-valerolactone to valeric acid synthesis via thermocatalytic and electrocatalytic systems has been summarized.

The present review highlights the synthetic strategies and potential applications of TMNs for organic reactions, environmental remediation, and health-related activities.

The present short review discusses the computational studies carried out on polyacetylene (PAc), polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole (PPy), and other conducting polymers for predicting their electronic, optoelectronic and structural properties.

Hydrogen-bonding interactions of the [Sc₂(OH)₂(OH₂)₁₀]⁴⁺ dimer containing 7-coordinate Sc(III).

Acylselenoureas, selenosemicarbazones and selenocarbamate esters from complexes with various transition- and main-group-metals, adopting several coordination modes.

Borophene is a two-dimensional material that has shown outstanding applications in energy storage devices and analytical chemistry.

Due to the ongoing industrial revolution and global health pandemics, solar-driven water splitting and pesticide degradation are highly sought to cope with catastrophes such as depleting fossil reservoirs, global warming, and environmental degradation.

The first systematic review of the progress of research on the types and applications of laccase-like activity of nanomaterials is reported.

A complete discussion of MOFs and MOF composites such as MOF-based membranes, magnetic MOFs, and metal–organic gels (MOGs) used for dye removal along with their adsorption efficiency has been done.

The recent progress in PVA-based materials for electrocatalytic energy conversion has been summarized.

Epoxides are biologically important moiety that is also used as synthetic intermediates. This review aims to present the up-to-date advancements in methyltrioxorhenium (MTO)-catalyzed epoxidation of alkenes using diverse oxidizing agents.

This perspective summarizes recent developments in the synthesis of propargylamines using porous solids (zeolites, MOFs and carbon) as supports/catalysts.